Just days after rape games hit the buffers in Japan, it has emerged that several of Germany’s politicians hope to ban the production and distribution of all violent videogames in the country.
Sixteen Interior Ministers have reportedly banded together in an effort to demand that Germany’s national parliament introduce the ban …

and suppose there IS a correlation?...

...Suppose we determine conclusively that one out of a hundred thousand game players is influenced to do something violent. Are we now willing to, en masse, sacrifice our right to freedom of thought and expression? To let the government and pressure groups decide what's safe for us to hear, see, and think?

Why is the debate even -about- whether there is a link? Would a proven link justify a fatal blow to our most fundamental freedoms?

I've been trying to figure this out for a while. Would those saying, "butbut, there's no link!" like to state here whether they're ready to delete their copies of Doom and Gears of War (and, presumably shortly thereafter, your copies of Die Hard and Transformers) when the link is found?